Description

This LP finally brings a Clipping fan-favorite, 2016s Wriggle, onto vinyl in an improved, expanded version that features new art, previously unreleased remixes, and a track thats exclusive to the vinyl format.

The original, digital-only Wriggle EP was six tracks that werent finished in time to make it onto the groups 2014 Sub Pop debut, CLPPNG. For Shooter, Clipping recorded themselves firing fifteen different guns, the sounds of which exclusively constituted the beats drums, augmented only by a synthesized tone-row. The verses referenced the well-worn technique of hashtag rap, but instead of using it to boast about the rappers personal wealth and masculine prowess, Clipping put forth imagistic narratives of three violent encounters. True to much of the groups music, Shooter was an attempt to reframe a familiar style and test the limits of its formal capabilities. Hot Fuck No Love contains what might be the most explicit verse to date from Clippings favorite New Jersey rapper Cakes Da Killa. The EPs title track, Wriggle, was built around a sample of the influential power-electronics song Wriggle Like a Fucking Eel by Whitehouse, transforming William Bennetts torturous imperative into a instructional dance-floor banger. Wriggle and Shooter have become classic Clipping tracks and staples of their live show.

With this vinyl edition, Clipping fans old and new – and there are many new fans thanks to their breakout 2020 album, Visions of Bodies Being Burned, and Daveed Diggs thriving acting career – get the vinyl version of Wriggle theyve been clamouring for.